Every “Brat” song by Charli XCX if it were a book

This book tells the story of the actress, model and it-girl Julia Fox, who became famous everywhere, aka Julia. In the bucket shows Fox’s turbulent childhood, teenage years and adult life. Look, there is a lot of turmoil. If Kanye West is just the fifth most aggressive and chaotic man in your life, that’s a Memoirs. It is a book about a man who refuses to live a life that is less than exemplary, despite all the problems that come with it.

I want to read EmilyI want to read Anne, I want to read with George (Eliot). But seriously, folks, Jane Eyre is the naughtiest book in the (club) classics canon. As narrator, Jane is somehow clear-headed and self-deluded at the same time, the perfect brat perspective. It’s great fun to sit in a bar surrounded by mindless rich people and immerse yourself in a book in which the rich are just as mindless, petty and, dare we say it? horny.

And then we have this book to tear down the facade Jane Eyre‘s “happily ever after”, just like “Sympathy is a knife” brat‘s Hyphy behavior with self-doubt and jealousy. “Sympathy is a knife” slams the “all us pop girls are like a Family” Bubble that consumer-friendly white feminism demands. Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Jane EyreBertha, before she became the prototypical madwoman in the attic. It’s a post-colonial parody of Jane Eyre: “A missionary education in India will solve all my problems.”

I promise I didn’t just pick this book because the cover is a smoky green. That’s just part of it. “I might say something stupid” is a song about feeling out of place at a party, and The advantages of being a wallflower is 70 percent feeling out of place at parties. (The other 30 percent is feeling out of place at school, and a third thing that heightens the tension.) It’s also about finding a sense of belonging with fellow freaks, and that’s exactly what Charli’s angels feel within the fanbase.

NP is a book about translation, but also about a translated book called NP Most of all, it’s about the failure of language to capture reality and bridge the gap between people and their loved ones. Everyone in the book is fascinated by language while they’re infatuated with each other. They find that no language (written, spoken, English, Japanese) is up to the task of expressing the depth of their feelings. No amount of talking brings the characters as close to each other as they wish. Charli sings “I wish you’d talk talk to me,” but this book presupposes that that may never be enough.

From the No. 1 slut of new journalism, Slowly towards Bethlehem is Didion’s ode to California. Similarly, Charli’s song (and the remix featuring Addison Rae) features quintessential Los Angeles, with the titular California brand, references to shopping on Melrose Avenue, and the single’s cover featuring the Chateau Marmont’s trademark mismatched furniture. If you recognized the Chateau Marmont’s furniture, this book is for you.

Cookie Mueller lived her life in a unique way that was an extension of her crazy desire for experiences. Cookie grew up in Baltimore, joined John Waters’ film collective in the ’70s, had a child in Provincetown, and then became a literary luminary of ’80s New York. In her writings, she romanticized everything, even meeting the Manson girls. This oral history of her life, to which Waters contributed, paints a snapshot of a woman who could find the divine in the trash. There’s also a lot of talk about how she fell in love (again) with Italy.

You might think this book about mother-daughter trauma would be for Apple, right? But Divine Secrets speaks so wonderfully about uninhibited girls and the desire of all women, rewind to the time before they subordinated their lives to the male gaze. In “Rewind,” Charli laments what she lost when she left behind the time when she cared less about her appearance and her position in the pop world. The same wounds run through generations in this book. Well, with less concern about pop superstar status.

Like Charli’s tribute to hyperpop inventor Sophie, Grief is for people is a memoir of one man’s love for a friend, co-worker and mentor, someone who challenged, intimidated and comforted him in equal measure. It’s also about how every death feels bigger and yet smaller in the wake of COVID and the cruelties of the 21st century.

What better way to celebrate female hostility than with this book of essays by Caroline Calloway’s one-time ghostwriter? As YouTube essayist D’Angelo Wallace pointed out, Beach’s book is so much more than the drama that made her famous. The book touches on topics such as political engagement, body image and class.

(Side note: This recommendation refers to the original version of “Girl, so confused”. The book that goes with the Lorde remix is Bobbed and bathtub ginby Marion Meade. A biography of four female writers from the “Roaring Twenties”. It shows that every “It” girl has her own struggles, much like Lorde’s verse.)

Truly, a book by Eve Babitz would work for almost any song on bratThe Californian hedonism of “Von Dutch” brings Slow days, fast company The new co-biography about Babitz and Didion is perfect “Girls, so confusing” material. But Sex and anger is pure “B2B,” with its endless monotonous days and an ex who keeps coming back like a pile of shit that can’t be flushed down. Here, Babitz fictionalizes two toxic exes, Earl McGrath and Ahmet Ertegun, who she can’t seem to avoid. If you want good evidence of why exes shouldn’t try to stay friends, read Sex and anger.

They know we had to do it to them. “Mean Girls” is a song about a New York girl who is kind of annoying but also incredibly good at getting attention. My year of rest and relaxation is essentially the titular mean girl in book form – a novel that has had a stranglehold on a certain corner of the culture for the past six years. She’s everywhere, she’s kind of annoying, and she’s a lot darker than her ubiquity would suggest.

In maternity, Sheila Heti designs her own version of the I Ching to figure out if it’s better to honor her ancestors by being a mother or an artist. She vacillates between these competing ideas (that maybe don’t have to compete) in exactly the same way as Charli’s song. They’re eerily similar vibes.

What would fit better with Charli’s song about doing coke in the toilet than a first-hand account of the rise and fall of Studio 54? Haden-Guest makes Studio 54 sound like the best and worst party in the world. And more importantly, it was a party that no one could really stop. You think the government could stop a good time? Think again. The story begins before Studio 54 was founded and ends with Steve Rubell’s death.

“Hello Goodbye” is a song about a person who is so destabilized by an early breakup that he feels crazy and “a nervous wreck.” The mustache is about a guy who freaks out because his wife won’t admit that he used to have a mustache. It’s the little things, you know?

“Why are the pretty girls always crazy?” Chief Wiggum asks this question in an episode of “Bad Era” by The simpsonsbut it is also a question that runs through “Spring Breaker” and My sister, the serial killer. Or rather, these works of art explore what makes madness so hot. My sister, the serial killer is a lot funnier than you’d expect from its title and premise (a nurse covers up her sister’s black widow attraction until her crush becomes the next potential victim). There’s glamour – and humor – in casual cruelty.